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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

1986! Pt. 2 – New Universe!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Comic Book Industry, Comic Books, Rob Liefeld, Visual Arts, Arts, Comics, Comic Artists, Books

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

1986 Part Two! Marvel’s attempts to launch an all new, New Universe as DC’s Power Trio of Superman, Batman & Wonder Woman get a fresh overhaul for former Marvel Mega-Stars! At the cineplex, an Australian adventurer takes America by storm!

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0:00.0

Today we continue to crash the year that was

0:17.0

1986 Marvel Comics launches the new universe, or do they?

0:24.0

And in the meantime, DC Comics answers with three of the biggest Titans in the comic

0:29.6

book creative space, who each take a big giant swing at the big three DC icons, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, get significant

0:40.7

facelifts over the course of 1986 and in the world of film and cinema, America goes crazy

0:47.3

for an Australian outback adventurer known only as Crocodile Dundee.

0:53.3

It is quite a year. There is so much going on.

0:56.8

And we look at all of it through the lens of Robeservations.

1:04.9

Hey, everybody. This is Rob Leifeld. Welcome to another installment of Rob'servations. We talk about comics and movies and

1:14.4

streaming and all of the ways that all the comic books that I grew up with, all the superheroes

1:18.8

that I loved and I idolized have just become part of the like infrastructure of pop culture. I mean,

1:26.8

they are the bedrock of what is going on right now.

1:29.4

I mean, I actually today read an article that was a link to this entire discussion on Reddit about,

1:37.4

are there too many Marvel shows and movies?

1:41.1

And that's not what I'm here to debate today.

1:42.9

I'm just telling you that's that's a

1:44.8

headline because because they're saying like there's too much there's too much so again as i

1:50.5

always remind you grew up in the 70s 1974 is when i was seven years old encountered my first

1:57.6

marvel comic magic it it completely cast its spell on me.

2:01.8

I was taken up by it, taken in, just became an avid comic book enthusiast, and it became

2:09.4

my career for the last 37 years.

2:11.6

I write them, I draw them, I publish them.

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